Word: saversion
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Makeup Savers. When Leontyne was departing for Juilliard, Big Auntie recalls, "Miz Chisholm called her and she say, 'Promise me you'll keep on bein' just Leontyne.' " Not many people know who "just Leontyne" 15-perhaps not even Leontyne.
Though the fastest-growing part of its business is industrial (e.g., nearly every package of Life Savers sold has a 5-in. Chicago Printed String tear-open tape), the company is developing new wrappings to titillate the giver. Sometimes they miss: last year a fancy line called "Gold, Frankincense and...
Arguments against the bill have centered largely on doubts as to whether school boards--even at a county-wide level--can be trusted with powers of taxation. School board members tend to be "yes" men for school principals, so runs the argument, and thus qualify as spenders rather than savers...
¶ Life Savers (said Adman Cone: "How loud can you shout, how much can you claim for a 5? candy? Life Savers knows exactly").
The Man: Cruiser-sized (6 ft. 2 in., 180 lbs.), handsome Tom Gates dresses with hand-tailored, striped-tie conservatism ("He is," says a longtime friend, "about the only man I know who wears both button-down collars and a collar pin"), works and lives quietly, avoids Washington's...